Americans apparently don't want classy government. Americans want reality TV in the white house.
How do you convince 70 million Americans who aren't interested in listening to external wisdom, of anything?
We, the people who love civility and good governance and peace, have work to do. But social norms can and do change.
Christ, Clarance Thomas frequently signals that he wants to roll back the legal protections for interracial marriage and just look at his marriage.
As soon as the House puts forward a bill to ban interracial marriage, you can rest assured that 5% is suddenly more like 50%. We are going backwards and they've been eagerly waiting to dig out the old social norms. Assholes on twitter are already back to using "retard" as a slur, as if 4chan is a role model.
